Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University. New book: Wild Antagonism: How the Far Right Claimed Critique - coming out with Edinburgh University Press in May 2027. .https://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwwfxamuvc2xWell said Amanda. We need to reinvigorate the best internationalist impulses of the trade union movement in Aotearoa and elsewhere [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwfxamuvc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwtyphrtx22gthis is a very good (and hopeful) answer to the fascism question [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtyphrtx22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwtyczpptc25Giovanni is spot on. I was discussing this in class with students yesterday. The report that RNZ produced about the first 9 months of post-Oct 7 coverage was impossibly shoddy. But ignored by other legacy media. And the 2 RNZ articles on it (including 1 by C. Peacock) were basically press releases [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtyczpptc25https://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwtxdstxyc2kreally good to see an open letter like this...most people in the north have had enough of all the sectarian bullshit @altnamackin.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtxdstxyc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwsf7ozc522hFunded PhD position with a good crew at Uppsala [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsf7ozc522hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwseevampk2kSeymour & Peters had a bonding moment in communicating their shared antipathy to "the media", because of the inanity of some of the questions. And in the specific instance, they were not wrong. The left block should not leave all the media critique to these guys for the rest of the campaign #nzpol01 Oct 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwseevampk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mws2ahp2ns24TEU whānau....we need to keep our 'UniSaver divest from genocide' bargaining demand vivid in the consciousness of our colleagues at the different universities @islates.bsky.social @mohanjdutt.bsky.social @amandathomas.bsky.social @rosieoverell.bsky.social @ojutel.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 04:42 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mws2ahp2ns24https://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwn7jeguj22z@altnamackin.bsky.social just to note the point - think of how the red scare "anti-woke-on-speed" economy could potentially be ramped up even if the left block win the election. As if to parallel the trajectory of US politics after Biden's 2020 election win [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 06:34 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwn7jeguj22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwn4znolx22kThe future of our public service media outlet seems bleak, based on the calibre of the listener feedback to the panel29 Sep 2026 05:49 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwn4znolx22khttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwn3p5qsmc2jthe arrogance and entitlement of the NZ Labour Party is quite something. If I was working for the Greens, I'd go for them hard. Take the piss out of the hubris....make it clear that you are done with being infantilised by sensible Daddy #nzpol https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361036026/nz-election-2026-live-updates-politics-campaign-news29 Sep 2026 05:25 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwn3p5qsmc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwikhso4jc2vHard to fathom that we are all talking about "Garvaghy Road" again after a bizarre decision by the Parade Commission, supported by braindead advice from the PSNI. https://www.thejournal.ie/drumcree-orange-order-parade-gravaghy-road-explained-7173877-Sep2026/27 Sep 2026 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwikhso4jc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwhf4jm6gk26@islates.bsky.social sound familiar? https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2019052908/the-new-education-group-that-wants-to-represent-parents-voices26 Sep 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwhf4jm6gk26https://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwfynamqvs2vinteresting to hear well-known "sensible centrist" Peter Thiel affirm his commitment to "democracy" now that the thing that scares him and his far-right buddies the most is the prospect of a viable democratic socialist politics in the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7yl7fEHeKM&t=1515s26 Sep 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwfynamqvs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwffz63pmk2rHeard Brannavan read this at the book launch in Wellington last night. Powerful, resonant essay. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Sep 2026 04:09 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwffz63pmk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwf3gcqcws2bBook manuscript finally in production – coming out May next year with Edinburgh University Press26 Sep 2026 00:59 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwf3gcqcws2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mwaqbz3lcs2uJason Hannan's Trolling Ourselves to Death is a good book - my review in the Quarterly Journal of Speech #academicsky https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GBUGKJCMKDGNV5I9BKVX/full?target=10.1080/00335630.2026.273122924 Sep 2026 07:29 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwaqbz3lcs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mw7tkky42k24the university "ethics committee" under Trump 2.0 [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Sep 2026 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7tkky42k24https://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mw6ffncqs22bOur universities and polytechnics need this kind of union militancy everywhere "A window is opening for a major national industrial confrontation over the state of education, the likes of which was never experienced by Keir Starmer, but could seriously test Andy Burnham’s government". [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Sep 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6ffncqs22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mvrko75nkc2i#NZpol has a badly needed 'event' on the horizon. Bring on the dislocations and ruptures I say [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Sep 2026 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvrko75nkc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sean-phelan.bsky.social/post/3mvqj3vzum223@drtomboland.bsky.social I might need to add a new chapter to my book after discovering the "USA, USA" medley version of The Fields of Athenry... 😬 https://youtube.com/shorts/eF0EBTkOwhM?si=rSVbKzG-I2Q2VfCa17 Sep 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:pdj3p6pweiddilibr6jfj5io/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqj3vzum223